What is the max keyword density before considered SPAM?

One of my spam page has one keyword at 30%. I think it is too high, but I have not seen any reference on at which level google or other SE will consider it as spam.

I had to collect many data before knowing the redflag CTR and CPM in adsense.

 

One of our tests with 50%, 75% and 100% KWD, allowing for stops, still remained No.1 out of 1.5 million in G.
Cannot comment on other SE's.

 

I found a high KWD will not lead clicks even if it is positioned high. My cunning plan is to

1 make more people come - high sepr and high ctr
2 make them stay - some readable interesting content
3 don't remember my url - I don't want repeated visitors at least for my spam site

 

Is keyword density really help in the ranking?

 

greater than 5% is called keyword stuffing and will get you penalized

 

3-7% for major keyword is best and 1-2 or 3% for secondary keywords is good, -10 or more than 10 is more likely keyword stuffing.

source: seomoz.org

 

Yes. This is a fact that anything that is greater than 5% is considered as keyword stuffing. I always prefer to keep this density within the limit and the results are good.

 

In EzineArticles, their maximum keyword density is 1.99%. Once you submit an article that has 2% or more, they would reject it.

 

Per Google "2-4%" kyd
But check this out:
I spent a few month doing some extensive SEO research and one portion of my research considered keywords along with many other factors. Now I have everything down to some kind of science and i'm ready to go. I spent several weeks working very hard to make sure I was ready to deploy my new site. I have NEVER been so wrong in all my life.

It has been a few months now and i'm doing well however there is a reason I'm not doing as well as I thought. Every rule I applied like worrying about proper content keywords and all that good stuff is the reason my site in not on top. Almost every site in front of me on a search is no more then trash I would have never created on a bad day. I found site with density in the range from 25 to 85% doing just fine. I think now it is all a luck of the draw because I have had site with hardly nothing on them just sitting there for months and has PR3. With nothing on it... It is all BS and Goolge will decide you destiny no matter what you do. Everyone gets different treatment.

 

If I am writting just content about 1.5-2 percent. If I am writting for the first page of google I compare to my competitors which in some niches I have seen up over 10%. I do not very often go above 5% because in most cases it seems very unnatural.

 

@reapr I would do the same however I'm so upset about trying so hard and these fools beating me out.

For me biggest problem is to find a long tail keyword to even use. If I can figure that out I can make it all work. I have had so many people tell me different stories I have no idea what to think or what to look for...

I have been using exact terms which I think is only a freak thing to convert. I can never get mine up to the top of google and I have tried everything I can think of or has been told.
My last try with a long tail keyword was picked and ran as I have been told and completely failed. I selected a exact long tail that had 500 exact match comp pages with over 200 searches per month. I could never get it to get past page 5 no matter what I did. Till this day it has not even been viewed once. Everyone talks as if it is so easy but it's not. Now when I search for the EXACT term I'm first on the page out of the 500 but no one is searching with quotes.

Anyway, sorry for get off subject

 

There is no set 'correct' keyword density. Write your content naturally & for human visitors and search engines will lap it up.

 

I agree with DoA. Try to make your site as natural as you can, make your keywords appear at your site "as they should be", and you will be doing OK

 

I stick to less than 3% because anymore feels unnatural and obvious keyword stuffing.

Other than the fact this is the rate that is always given to me by employers.

Also, I noticed that if I'm still at the raw stage of my writing, I find that putting beyond 3% of keywords come off as obvious advertising/keyword articles.

I try to go for articles/writings that are natural and human as mentioned above.

If you're in control of your keyword density, do is as natural as you want. But if you have restrictions, follow that.

 

I never go over 6% keyword density and I never had a problem.

 

keep the keyword density low. It's just part of on-page optimization. What really determine whether your site rank well in a particular keyword is the backlinks. The more vote you have, the more trust you gain from Google.

 

2% to 8% is acceptable according to Google. Over 8% might be too much.

 

● Ensure keywords are included in the title of each page you create

● Repeat your keywords near the top of each page as headings or use bold

● Design your website with pages that don't have more than 300 - 500 words per page, with keywords repeated 3 - 6 times for every hundred words

● Your overall keywords should be repeated throughout the whole website, not just the individual page - use links back to the home page with the keywords in them

 

That's way to high. I usually stick between 5 and 6% percent.

 

Unless you're employed by some large corporation to do seo, I'd forget about Keyword density. Write naturally about your content and the keyword density, long tail and LSI will take care of itself. If you overdo the keyword density by keyword stuffing it won't read well and that's spamming.

Andy